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The old MCollective protocols are now ancient and was quite Ruby slanted – full of Symbols and used YAML and quite language specific – in Choria I’d like to support other Programming Languages, REST gateways and so forth, so a rethink was needed. I’ll look at the basic transport protocol used by the Choria NATS Read More

Recently at Config Management Camp I’ve had many discussions about Orchestration, Playbooks and Choria, I thought it’s time for another update on it’s status. I am nearing version 1.0.0, there are a few things to deal with but it’s getting close. Foremost I wanted to get the project it’s own space on all the various Read More

About a month ago I blogged about Choria Playbooks – a way to write series of actions like MCollective, Shell, Slack, Web Hooks and others – contained within a YAML script with inputs, node sets and more. Since then I added quite a few tweaks, features and docs, it’s well worth a visit to choria.io Read More

Today I am very pleased to release something I’ve been thinking about for years and actively working on since August. After many POCs and thrown away attempts at this over the years I am finally releasing a Playbook system that lets you run work flows on your MCollective network – it can integrate with a Read More

Some time ago I mentioned that I am working on improving the MCollective Deployment story. I started a project called Choria that aimed to massively improve the deployment UX and yield a secure and stable MCollective setup for those using Puppet 4. The aim is to make installation quick and secure, towards that it seems Read More